Here is my new review:
While I was watching this film, I asked myself: what are the good premises to create a new cinematic universe? Originality, continuity and a good love story. The Mummy, directed by Alex Kurtzman, fails all these fundamental premises to set up the Universal Dark Universe.
At the beginning of the film, an ancient princess is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
The main problem of this film is that the screenwriter and the director haven't added nothing new to the old films about the Mummy that we all know. Probably, they thought that having a female mummy was enough. It wasn't.
Tom Cruise. He's not the right choice for this role. If this is a Dark Universe, then the genre of all the films should be the horror. This is an action movie. No suspense, no shivers. It's more Mission Impossible meets Indiana Jones. There is not continuity to the roots of the classic monster films. Such a waste.
I don't know how to call the relationship between these two, but this is not a love story. The two actors have no chemistry at all and their lines are terrible. The romantic turn of the ending is one of the worst things you will see at the cinema this summer.
Was it necessary? The introduction of Dr. Jekyll does not make any sense in the storyline. This is the first film of a whole universe. We don't want to know everything because we still don't care about the characters.
Overall, for me, this film was a complete waste.
What do you think?
